CA2420583A1 - A hearing aid with adaptive matching of input transducers - Google Patents

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CA2420583A1
CA2420583A1 CA002420583A CA2420583A CA2420583A1 CA 2420583 A1 CA2420583 A1 CA 2420583A1 CA 002420583 A CA002420583 A CA 002420583A CA 2420583 A CA2420583 A CA 2420583A CA 2420583 A1 CA2420583 A1 CA 2420583A1
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04R—LOUDSPEAKERS, MICROPHONES, GRAMOPHONE PICK-UPS OR LIKE ACOUSTIC ELECTROMECHANICAL TRANSDUCERS; DEAF-AID SETS; PUBLIC ADDRESS SYSTEMS
    • H04R25/00—Deaf-aid sets, i.e. electro-acoustic or electro-mechanical hearing aids; Electric tinnitus maskers providing an auditory perception
    • H04R25/40—Arrangements for obtaining a desired directivity characteristic
    • H04R25/407—Circuits for combining signals of a plurality of transducers
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04R—LOUDSPEAKERS, MICROPHONES, GRAMOPHONE PICK-UPS OR LIKE ACOUSTIC ELECTROMECHANICAL TRANSDUCERS; DEAF-AID SETS; PUBLIC ADDRESS SYSTEMS
    • H04R29/00—Monitoring arrangements; Testing arrangements
    • H04R29/004—Monitoring arrangements; Testing arrangements for microphones
    • H04R29/005—Microphone arrays
    • H04R29/006—Microphone matching
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04R—LOUDSPEAKERS, MICROPHONES, GRAMOPHONE PICK-UPS OR LIKE ACOUSTIC ELECTROMECHANICAL TRANSDUCERS; DEAF-AID SETS; PUBLIC ADDRESS SYSTEMS
    • H04R2410/00—Microphones
    • H04R2410/07—Mechanical or electrical reduction of wind noise generated by wind passing a microphone

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  • Obtaining Desirable Characteristics In Audible-Bandwidth Transducers (AREA)

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The present invention relates to a hearing aid with a directional characteristic, comprising at least two spaced apart input transducers (16, 18) and wherein transducer signal type, such as transducer noise, wind noise , sound emitted from a sound source located in the surroundings of the hearing aid, distorted signals, such as clipped signals, slew rate limited signals, etc, is determined, and wherein signal processing in the hearing aid, such a s transducer matching, filtering, signal combination, etc, is adapted accordin g to the determined signal type. For example, the directional characteristic m ay be switched to an omnidirectional characteristic when at least one of the input transducer signals is dominated by noise or distortion, and/or adaptiv e matching of input transducers may be put on hold while at least one of the input transducer signals is dominated by noise or distortion.
CA002420583A 2000-10-04 2001-10-03 A hearing aid with adaptive matching of input transducers Expired - Fee Related CA2420583C (en)

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DKPA200001475 2000-10-04
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EP01610048.9A EP1196009B1 (en) 2000-10-04 2001-05-10 A hearing aid with adaptive matching of input transducers
PCT/DK2001/000643 WO2002030150A2 (en) 2000-10-04 2001-10-03 A hearing aid with adaptive matching of input transducers

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